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It seems that fictional characters’ names of movies like Twilight, Vampire Diaries have been the choice of young parents nowadays in naming their childrenIt seems that fictional characters’ names of movies like Twilight, Vampire... more
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I never understood why people love watching television. When someone would tell me about the previous night's Law & Order, I'd wonder why they wasted so much time with television. Wouldn't they rather do something creative instead?
In college that thought became "why would you waste your time in front of a television, when you could waste your time in front of a beer bong, getting wasted."
My mind has been inundated with 75 years of academic scholarship, which attempted to convince me that popular culture's only purpose is to hegemonize the proletariat. It was easy for me to believe, because I'd never been a TV fan.
This changed when I was cold lampin' around my parent's house. I'd just returned from a trip to South America, when a friend came over with LOST season 1 DVDs. I was skeptical. I told him I had better things to do. He knew that I didn't. He turned on the DVD. I watched 25 hours in three days.
LOST had won me over.
By the time 815's survivors from the front of the plane met the survivors from the back, I'd moved back to my old college town. I didn't have a TV, but a friend gave me his key so I could watch episodes while he was at class. I'd invite people over to have LOST parties in his living room.
Around the time the Others watched 815 crash, I was living in Mexico. I had one fear before moving to Mexico, and it was that I might not be able to watch LOST. To my luck, I was able to buy an iTunes season pass. Watching abroad, helped me keep up on gossip with friends in the United States. LOST helped cure homesickness.
I left Mexico before the season ended. I took a trip up the Pacific coast. I watched episodes in Portland and Kelowna. I screeched at the top of my lungs from a motel room in Yreka, when I realized the last episode was a flash-forward.
I watched the helicopter crash with friends in North Hollywood. By the time we met Kevin Johnson, I was living in Brooklyn.
I watched the first episode of the fifth season at my parent's house, after returning from another trip to South America. I watched episodes in San Francisco, Seattle, London, Heidelberg and Lower Manhattan. Season five ended 2 days before I signed a lease for an apartment in Los Angeles.
I've moved around a lot, the past five seasons. I guess you could say that LOST has been my constant. And now, I truly understand what it means to love watching television.
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Now I can't get enough television. I love it all, but specifically LOST, infoMania, SuperNews!, Vanguard, and The Rotten Tomatoes Show.
My editor made me add that.I never understood why people love watching television. When someone would tell me... more
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Today was relatively quiet at the Bella Center. Here's Jacob Malthouse from Vancouver, BC talking to Evan Kopelson about why he's so excited to be at COP15Today was relatively quiet at the Bella Center. Here's Jacob Malthouse from... more
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South African President Jacob Zuma pledged to expand treatment to all HIV-positive babies and other at-risk individuals, the latest big step in his effort to reverse his predecessor's disastrous policies on HIV/AIDS.
LINK :http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125966963354071133.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThirdSouth African President Jacob Zuma pledged to expand treatment to all HIV-positive... more
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Fathers. Sons.
This theme is no stranger to those familiar with LOST, but what if the implications stemming from the father/son relationships witnessed through characters like Sawyer and Jack are actually extensions of a larger conflict, between Jacob and his son Benjamin.
Granted, this is pulling from Wikipedia, but take a look at this description:
"According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost. The description of Benjamin being born after the arrival in Canaan is thought by some scholars to refer to the tribe of Benjamin coming into existence by branching from the Joseph group after the tribe had settled in Canaan. A number of biblical scholars suspect that the distinction of the Joseph tribes (including Benjamin) is that they were the only Israelites which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout."
What are your thoughts? Obviously LOST is shrouded in Biblical references, but how much of this is actually reflected in the narrative? Is the island's Jacob and biblical Jacob one in the same?
Discuss.Fathers. Sons.
This theme is no stranger to those familiar with LOST, but what if... more
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So, nothing huge to report here...but it is interesting to see that Dharma won't be a huge part of the final season. I wonder if those tidbits have been pushed off into the "Mysteries of the Unknown" series.
Also, important to note that Jacob has never appeared as another character, meaning that all of you "Jacob is Vincent" theorists can hang up your collective hats.So, nothing huge to report here...but it is interesting to see that Dharma won't... more
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